Hey guys --
we all know i'm no noob, but i was reading over the 2001 rules yesterday and i found a slight oddity. for a bonus roll with more than 1 die (i.e., 2d6) does each die need to come up a 6 to qualify for a bonus roll or can i roll a bonus with just one die?
up till now, i've been rolling a bonus for every 6 i roll.

So say you have something with an armor of 2d10. You roll the 2d10, get a 5 and a 10. You rolled max on one, so you get another d10. You roll a 3 on that one, your total is 18 (5+10+3).

And also, if you get a max roll on a bonus roll, you get yet another.

You have a weapon that deals 2d6. You roll 2d6 and get a 1 and a 6. You rolled max, so you get a bonus d6 roll. You get another 6 on that one, so you get another bonus roll, for which you roll a 3. You end up with 16 damage (1+6+6+3).

Interestingly enough, a critical failure only occurs if you roll all ones. So if you have 3d10 and roll 1+1+3, you still get 5, and not 3. If you roll all ones though, then it's zero.

I don't use that rule for damage or armor. If you roll that badly, you probably aren't going to succeed anyway, but if you have a gigantic gun that deals 10d10 damage pointed at a regular minifig, if it hits, it's going to kill, even if it does roll all 1s.

OneEye589 wrote:I don't use that rule for damage or armor. If you roll that badly, you probably aren't going to succeed anyway, but if you have a gigantic gun that deals 10d10 damage pointed at a regular minifig, if it hits, it's going to kill, even if it does roll all 1s.

But then you can have so much fun with abstractions. The minifig must have blocked the gigantic laser Dragonball Z style.

Besides, the odds of that being the case are worse than a million to one. Cut the poor minifig some slack.

OneEye589 wrote:I don't use that rule for damage or armor. If you roll that badly, you probably aren't going to succeed anyway, but if you have a gigantic gun that deals 10d10 damage pointed at a regular minifig, if it hits, it's going to kill, even if it does roll all 1s.

But then you can have so much fun with abstractions. The minifig must have blocked the gigantic laser Dragonball Z style.

Besides, the odds of that being the case are worse than a million to one. Cut the poor minifig some slack.

Well, that would be a feat on the part of the minifig, not a mishap with the weapon (which would be shown with the use roll, not the damage). The situation you described would be in the minifig's defense roll, at least in my games.